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Columbine Knolls, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Northeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80128. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Littleton quadrangle.

Columbine Knolls within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

518 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 518 fires within 5 miles of Columbine Knolls between 1996 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined406
Smoking33
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Fireworks11
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLittleton Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLittleton Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLITTLETON
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLittleton Fire RescueUNKNOWN
3 September 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLittleton Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Columbine Knolls: 20 producers, 17 occurrences, 9 unknowns. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Deer Creek MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Rock Products No 2StoneProducer
Deer Creek South Pit QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bergen Park PitClayProducer
Lariat MineClayProducer
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Columbine Hills0.7 miles21
Columbine0.8 miles21
The Ridge At Stony Creek1.1 miles21
Normandy Estates1.1 miles21
Meadowbrook Heights1.2 miles21
Ken Caryl1.9 miles21
Leawood1.9 miles21
Archer3.0 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122546983The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2355360. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.